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U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS CHAUX, or PARIS, FRANCE.

ART OF MANUFACTURING WOOLEN FABRICS FROM SHORT-STAPLE FIBER.

SPECIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,015, dated November 6, 1883,

Application filed June 13, 1853. (No specimens.) Patented in France May 11, 1883. No. 143.061; in Belgium May 15,1BE3,N0. 61,886, and in England May 18, 1883, No. 2,496.

To all whom, it may concern: removed, a fabric which has great suppleness Be it known that I, LoUIs CHAUX, a citiand elasticity, the wool expands by its elaszen of the French Republic, residing at Paris, ticity, and the fabric is in excellent condition France, haveinvented an Improvement in the for falling. Art of llfanufactnring Voolen Fabrics from In order that what I claim as my invention Short-Staple Fiber, of which the following is may be clearly distinguished from what is old a specification. and well known, I will say that the practice Up to the present time, so far as I am aware, of mixing wool with other fibers, both animal it has been deemed impracticable to utilize the and vegetable, for spinning and weaving into 10 commoner grades of wool in the manufacture fabrics, has been well known for many years. of all-wool tlannels, because certain of these This of course I do not claim. In all of these wools cannot be spun fine enough when unfabries, however, the vegetable or other fiber mixed with cotton or other vegetable fiber. remains, and is intended to remain. Experience has shown me that by the admix- The practice of treating woolen fabrics to a 15 ture with such wools of a vegetable fiber-as bath of some acid-as hydrochloric, for excotton, for cxamplethcy can be spun to the ample-in order to ineinerate or destroy any proper degree of fineness. vegetable substance (as the debris of burrs, My process, then, is as follows: I spin the for example) that may be entangled with the threads from cotton and wool mixed together wool, and remain after spinning and weaving, 20 in suitable proportions, and then weave these has also been in use for many years, and I do threads into a i'abricin the usual way of weavnot of course claim this, although I employ it 7 ing all-wool fabrics. After weaving, the fabric as a part of my method. My method consists is putinto abatlnwhich destroys the vegetable in mixing cotton with a common, short-fiber fiber without injuring the wool. This treatwool, to serve as a provisional support, and 2 5 ment yields a fabric which consists entirely of enable the wool to be spun into fine yarn and the wool, the cotton or other vegetable fiber woven, and then, after the weaving, removing having served only as a provisional assistant the cotton entirely by means of anyknown into sustain the woolen thread during the oper-- cinerating bathof hydrochloric acid, for exation of spinning and weaving. When the ample-wherebyafine all-wool fabric remains 0 cotton is removed, there is no appreciable composed wholly of common wools. change in the character of the fabric-that is Having thus described my invention, I to say, no spaces are left, and the texture is claim full and soft as in any all-wool fabric. The herein-described method of producing For mixing together for spinning, the wool an all-wool fabric from common short-fiber 3 5 and vegetable fiber may be taken in any con wools, which consists in first mixing with the dition whatever. For example, both may be wool asufiicient amount of cotton to re-enforce in the rawor rough state and carded together; it, and then spinning the mixture; second, or it would be possible to first spin the cotton weaving the yarns so formed into a fabric; and then, by a second spinning, cover it with and, third, removing the cotton from the fab- 40 the wool. They may be mixed in various proric by any of the well-known means for in- 9Q portions, according to the quality of the wool; cinerating vegetable fibers in wool, substanbut only as much as may be necessary should tially as and for the purposes set forth. be used. Experience will determine this. In witness whereof I have hereunto si ned The mixed thread composed of wool and my name in the presence of two subscribing I 4 5 vegetable fiber maybe used for both warp and witnesses.

filling, or for either, the other being all of wool. LOUIS CHAUX.

I will add that the employment of cotton in Witnesses: this manner as a temporary support for the Rom. M. HoOPER,

50 wool produces, when the cotton is chemically AMAND BITTER. 

